Tag Archives: Peter High

FedEx’s Rob Carter: What It Takes To Be A Board-Level CIO

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There are few chief information officers with as stellar a reputation as Rob Carter’s. He has played an integral role in FedEx’s sophisticated logistics and analytics systems, which have been sources...

Shai Reshef: President Of World’s First Non-Profit, Tuition-Free, Accredited, Online University

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Shai Reshef is an Israeli-born entrepreneur who now lives in Pasadena, California. Although his master’s degree is in Chinese politics, he has made his name professionally in private education. He...

Forbes 30-Under-30 Honoree, Nic Borg, On Technology Enabled Education

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This is the tenth article in the Education Technology Innovation series, and it is fair to say that Nic Borg’s background is unlike any of the other entrepreneurs featured in the series. Like others...

A Professor With A Western Past Remakes Pakistan’s Entrepreneurial Future

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Umar Saif has done a lot in his 35 years.  A Pakistani, he earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge at 22. He began a post doctorate degree at MIT at an age when most...

Yahoo! Provides David Pogue With the Playground Of His Dreams

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David Pogue has become a household name in tech criticism from his “State of the Art” column in New York Times along with multi-media contributions to PBS and CBS among others.  Last week, Pogue...
    






Insights From A Smart House Innovator

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Much has been written about the “Internet of Things”, and the promise of smart devices making our lives better and more efficient. One of the places most logical for this reality to transform our...
    






Salman Khan, The Most Influential Person In Education Technology

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I have had the good fortune of speaking with good number of the leaders in education technology today. Since so many of these players have emerged from academe, the competition between companies is...
    






Salman Khan, The Most Influential Person In Education Technology

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I have had the good fortune of speaking with good number of the leaders in education technology today. Since so many of these players have emerged from academe, the competition between companies is...
    






Lessons From the CEO Of The First Ever MOOC

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There has been much press for the massive open online courses or MOOCs, including in my series of interviews to date with Sebastian Thrun and Daphne Koller, CEOs of Udacity and Coursera respectively...